MAN KILLED IN SUV ROLLOVER CRASH WAS 38, FROM SAN DIEGO

A 38-year-old man died late Friday after he crashed an SUV while transitioning from one freeway to another in the City Heights area.

The San Diego man, whose name was not released pending notification of his family, lost control of a 2003 Jeep Liberty while driving from northbound Interstate 15 to northbound Interstate 805 about 11:10 p.m., the Medical Examiner’s Office said.

He was not wearing a seat belt and was thrown from the Jeep, which rolled several times.

Teri Figueroa • U-T

74-year-old Ramona crash victim named

Ramona

A 74-year-old man from Ramona who died Thursday night in a collision on San Vicente Road has been identified as Kenneth Frederick Crane, according to the Medical Examiner’s Office.

He was heading north Thursday in his Ford Ranger when another Ford Ranger traveling south drifted into the north lanes and collided head-on with Crane’s SUV. He died at the scene.

Two other people who were injured were taken to the hospital.

Lori Weisberg • U-T

Pair rob man outside grocery in parking lot

La Mesa

La Mesa police were looking for two assailants who jumped and robbed a man in a grocery store parking lot late Friday night.

The attack happened shortly before 11:30 p.m. near the Vons market on University Avenue near La Mesa Boulevard, police said Saturday.

The victim told police he was heading to his vehicle when two strangers attacked him from behind and knocked him to the ground. The two men stole his wallet and phone then ran off, heading east through an alley behind a neighboring store.

The two men were in their early 20s, police said. One wore a gray T-shirt, the other wore a white T-shirt and khaki cargo shorts.

Teri Figueroa • U-T

Victim of head-on crash is identified

Escondido

A man who died at a hospital shortly after a head-on crash Friday in Escondido has been identified by the Medical Examiner’s Office as Brett Badger, 55, of Escondido.

Badger was driving a Chevrolet Camaro west on East Grand Avenue about 7:10 a.m. when his car veered into oncoming traffic near Harding Street and struck a Nissan Xterra SUV, the medical examiner said.

Badger, who was alone in the car, was transported to Palomar Medical Center. The driver and passengers in the SUV had minor injuries.

Susan Shroder • U-T

Agents find 9 tons of marijuana in truck

north county

U.S. Border Patrol agents discovered boxes filled with more than nine tons of marijuana packed into a tractor-trailer they stopped Thursday afternoon at the San Clemente checkpoint.

A drug-sniffing dog alerted agents to the trailer, loaded with cardboard boxes filled with marijuana, Border Patrol officials said. The drugs were determined to have a street value of $14.7 million.